MDOU MOCTAR - Afrique Victime [Black LP]

Format: Black LP
Catalogue No.: OLE1614LP
Barcode: 191401161411
Release Date: 14th June 2021
Genre: Rock

On 21st May, Matador Records will release Afrique Victime, the long-awaited new album by Mdou Moctar.

With Afrique Victime the prodigious Tuareg guitarist and songwriter rips a new hole in the sky ­– boldly reforging contemporary Saharan music and “rock music” by melding guitar pyrotechnics, full-blast noise, and field recordings with poetic meditations on love, religion, women's rights, inequality, and Western Africa’s exploitation at the hands of colonial powers.

The music listeners are the beneficiaries of the staggeringly powerful do-it-yourself musical ethic of Mdou Moctar – the man and the band – who’ve worked so hard to bring the spirits of families and communities in Niger to the West. Afrique Victime sounds and feels like a Tuareg hand reaching down from the sky, and we are very lucky for this chance to get lifted.

TRACKLIST
Chismiten
Taliat
Ya Habibti
Tala Tannam
Untitled
Asdikte Akal
Layla
Afrique Victime
Bismilahi Atagah